tied to this individuals. behavior than the next step is really going to go to what we are going to look on in these situations, which is social media footprint. why is this individual forecasting that they wanted to have this based on the ideology or cause on behalf of another network. or group of people. was there any indication about how they got their weapons or why they planned this? pretty consistent over the last 5 to 6 years, that we ve seen some sort of pattern like this. where the target is a known type. but you don t know which one. and that the attacker is not known, but they re oftentimes when we look back lots of pointing to what their activity is going to. be so i m sure that is where the fbi is out right now. i want to pick up on that. a point that frank our colleague made, clint. and while the point is it to be solidified and confirmed, every which way, that the past may be a prolonged to what happened today in this particular suspect, the fact remains that
he is expected to make a full recovery. the man has been identified as 42-year-old david depape. he was taken into custody by authorities after an altercation at the residence behind me. the assailant entered through the rear of the house, engaged in a confrontation with mr. pelosi. our colleague has been reporting the suspect was actually intending to target speaker nancy pelosi, saying where s nancy, which is what we saw during the capitol insurrection, people trying to hunt down the house speaker. of course mr. pelosi sustaining very serious injuries. finally, jim, it s worth pointing out, his social media footprint, this appears to be a very troubled individual who presumably believed in a host of conspiracy theories, according to his social media profiles. those include conspiracy theories about the 2020
nancy, where s nancy. he was tackled by responding police officers and taken into custody. as we look at his social media footprint, it is painting a portrait of someone who was involved in conspiracy theories. we are learning officials here condemning a lot of the hate speech we have seen, condemning the a thabg happened here. i spoke here with karen bass, who was in san francisco. she said in her view she can draw a direct line between the conspiracy theories being proffered by the former president and the attack that happened here. watch. the idea that he was violently attacked with a hammer is just frightening. the level of political discourse that our country is in right now. and it reminds me of january 6th. when the insurrectionists broke into the capitol, the first place they went was the speaker s office.
repeatedly and to hurl anti-semitic insults. this comes the same day speaker pelosi s husband was brutally attacked at their san francisco home, when an assailant broke in yelling where s nancy, just like the january 6th insurrectionists. if you were to look at the attacker s social media footprint, you would see signs of that radical zashz littering the place. various memes and conspiracy theories about covid-19 vaccines, global warming, jewish people and qanon fan fiction like the supposed cover-up of mass pedophilia rings and surprise recollection surprise, conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and january 6th. it s almost like his brain was constructed like legos by right wing media and their pet politicians. joining me is ben collins who covers disinformation in the dark web. and let s get right to this attacker. thank you for being here, ben. i m going to put up a few of the things. i talked about it, global warming, jewish people, trans humanism, covid-19 vaccines. it is n
killers. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: the heartbreaking spectacle of a gunman shooting parade-goers from a suburban chicago rooftop has reignited the fierce media debate over the guns or something else are at the root of the problem. the young, white male shooter who previously posted creepy videos the guy was suicidal, homicidal, had problems at school, had a social media footprint that screamed mass shooter, but the left saw all of this and decided they wanted to take guns away from law-abiding gun owners. we have a political organization that is promoting the selling of weapons of war. he assured us it was true, every worth of word of it. what they never mentioned was it was not only ridiculous and false, it was provably false because, actually, gun control does not stop bad people from using guns.